Monthly Archives: January 2010

Regardless of the reasons for your lack of energy or passion, there are specific, predictable ways to get past the funk. When you apply these suggestions you will lift both your spirits and your productivity, and begin to give you your rhythm back.

An effective agenda goes beyond start time, location, topics, and durations. Effective agendas do the following: support the meeting purpose, set the expectations of attendees as to what will be discussed, inform attendees of any preparation that will be required prior to the meeting, give the meeting leader a roadmap for driving the agenda, permit adequate time to cover each item, and allow the meeting leader to adjust the agenda easily if the meeting gets behind schedule. The meeting owner drives the agenda, not the other way around. There are times where you may have a concise meeting purpose and specific agenda items to address the meeting purpose, but the actual meeting deviates from the agenda.

In this article I’m going to show you why, despite the competition for our time and energy, being a mentor is one of the best things you can do.

It’s hard to communicate to a multitude. You may not know whether the message has reached them or not. You have no idea whether communication is a success or not.

I'm amazed at how each year slips by just a little more quickly. Only a few weeks ago I was running the San Juan River in Utah - blazing sunshine and ninety degrees in the shade. Now it's Fall already. And hey, I live in Southern California - in some places it's almost winter. Friends of mine back East are talking about 30 degree temperatures - or colder. Even snow flurries. Blink - and it will be November, then Thanksgiving, and right its heels - New Year's. All of whi...

This article will introduce you to the 7 principles of Musketeer Management: all for one and one for all. They are the principles that underlie the outstanding contributions of great and winning teams.

Almost every home in America has a showcase of the family’s achievements manifested in trophies and medals. Some people who glorify such achievements even create altar-like tables and cabinets for those medals and trophies which they or a member of their family has won either in an intellectual or a sporting match. There are also trophies garnered from beauty contests. People will always put a premium on anyone’s achievement and the appreciation that goes with it can best ...

I'm an alumni of Boston University Graduate School of Business, so I receive the Alumni magazine Bostonia. To be honest, that doesn't mean I read it faithfully at all. But this issue was different. George Labovitz, a professor in organizational behavior at the school wrote an article recently on his research into the application of alignment to achieve extraordinary results in organizations. He caught me with the first sentence: "More than thirty years of research has sho...

If you want to understand why your boss doesn’t know what’s going on, don’t blame the managers between you and the boss, instead look at what happens to information as it flows upward in an organization.

Many companies think material handling automation is a nice idea, but something for the big guys. In reality, material handling automation comes in many sizes. It saves far more productive hours than it takes in training, installation and maintenance. In fact, it's an excellent way to help grow to the size you want to be.